Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention operate a time enabled hybrid game. A time enabled hybrid game includes a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from at least one wager in a gambling game, an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon a player's skillful play of the entertainment game and a game world engine constructed to monitor the output of a clock during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game detect a unit of time based on the monitored output of the clock; and trigger the at least one wager in the gambling game based on the detection of the unit of time.